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Autochthonous Angiostrongylus cantonensis Lungworms in Urban Rats, Valencia, Spain, 2021
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 To determine the role of rats as potential reservoirs of zoonotic parasites, we examined rats trapped in urban sewers of Valencia, Spain, in 2021.
María Teresa Galán-Puchades +5 more
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Grassland management and helminth control on cattle farms [PDF]
, 2017 Farmers manage their pastures and grazing animals primarily to ensure that swards provide adequate, quality nutrients to support animal performance, but it is also possible to provide useful levels of parasite control without compromising production.
Forbes, Andrew
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A Review of Rat Lungworm Infection and Recent Data on Its Definitive Hosts in Hawaii
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2019 Rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) is a zoonotic nematode that causes rat lungworm disease (angiostrongyliasis), a potentially debilitating form of meningitis, in humans worldwide.
Chris N. Niebuhr +2 more
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International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2016 Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) are frequently infected with the lungworms Otostrongylus circumlitus and Parafilaroides gymnurus. The infection is often accompanied by secondary bacterial infections and can cause severe bronchopneumonia and even death in ...
Sophia Arlena Ulrich +5 more
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Release of Lungworm Larvae from Snails in the Environment: Potential for Alternative Transmission Pathways [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Gastropod-borne parasites may cause debilitating clinical conditions in animals and humans following the consumption of infected intermediate or paratenic hosts.
A Di Cesare +51 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2015 Background Pinnipeds are frequently infected by the lungworms Otostrongylus circumlitus and Parafilaroides gymnurus (Metastrongyloidea). Infections are frequently associated with secondary bacterial bronchopneumonia and are often lethal.
Sophia Arlena Ulrich +3 more
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International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2015 The cane toad invasion in Australia provides a robust opportunity to clarify the infection process in co-evolved versus de novo host–parasite interactions.
Felicity B.L. Nelson +3 more
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Determinants of lungworm specificity in five cetacean species in the western Mediterranean
Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Background Current data about Pseudaliidae show contrasting patterns of host specificity between congeneric species. We investigated how both contact and compatibility between hosts and parasites contributed to the patterns of lungworm infection observed
Rachel Pool +4 more
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Acute Phase Proteins in Response to
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 2004 Three experiments were carried out to examine the acute phase response, as measured by the acute phase proteins (APP) haptoglobin, serum amyloid A (SAA) and fibrinogen, in calves infected with lungworm, Dictyocaulus vivparus.
Waller K Persson, Höglund J, Gånheim C
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Report of Oslerus rostratus (Strongylida: Filaroididae) in cats from the Canary Islands, Spain
Austral Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2022 Metastrongylid species infecting wild and domestic cats worldwide are increasingly being reported. Between 2017 and 2019, a total of 202 faecal samples of domestic cats from the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) were analysed by microscopy and ...
Katherine Garcia-Livia +4 more
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